Quite a good read here about England's lost stadiums, its a shame how some of them have ended up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29460621

moverman

19-10-2014, 10:48 AM

My favourite lost ground was Ayresome Park, we had some good wins up there, their fans made it pretty intimidating, nothing like the Riverside nowadays - it's just not the same..

Also interesting from this piece is some info about the redeveloped Dell..

However, the origin of the name Crossley Place, a social housing area where the ground's car park used to be, is unclear.

"The only connection I can find is Matt Le Tissier's only penalty miss was against Nottingham Forest and the goalkeeper was Mark Crossley," said Mr Illingsworth. "Was someone in the developers a Nottingham Forest fan with a bit of a sense of humour?"

...makes sense I suppose.

sw16girl

19-10-2014, 10:52 AM

I recognise the current Dell - my son rented one of the flats there for a year - they are nice but it was odd going there when I remembers the previous times I had been to the Dell to watch the football.

Mind you if you think how those grounds have ended up is sad try this lot:-

http://www.derelictlondon.com/sportsgrounds.html

moverman

19-10-2014, 11:00 AM

Mind you if you think how those grounds have ended up is sad try this lot:-

Maine Road was a great and very intimidating ground to go to. The housing redevelopment that has replaced it has a blue road to represent the areas past.

http://i1.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article654855.ece/alternates/s615/C_71_article_1512666_image_list_image_list_item_0_ image.jpg
if i should die at kippax street et al

Vince Hilaire's Afro

19-10-2014, 01:51 PM

My favourite lost ground was Ayresome Park, we had some good wins up there, their fans made it pretty intimidating, nothing like the Riverside nowadays - it's just not the same..

Also interesting from this piece is some info about the redeveloped Dell..

However, the origin of the name Crossley Place, a social housing area where the ground's car park used to be, is unclear.

"The only connection I can find is Matt Le Tissier's only penalty miss was against Nottingham Forest and the goalkeeper was Mark Crossley," said Mr Illingsworth. "Was someone in the developers a Nottingham Forest fan with a bit of a sense of humour?"

...makes sense I suppose.
I think a fair few of us were up there the day we won the League. Wasn't that the last game played there?

Boro fans were quite graceful in defeat if I recall.

DocSavage

19-10-2014, 01:53 PM

plough lane wimbledon is now 3 blocks of flats visible behind the head of this texting lorry driver

On a more local level i miss the old champion hill ground for DH, i went a few times as a teenager and it was a really tidy ground for a non-league club. I also went to the old T+M ground at Figges Marsh and liked that olskool feel to it. The old Den, i went back in the early 2000s to tutor a kid who lived in a street where the ground used to be. Difficult to get too nostalgic for that one though.

Can google the images of course. This was the terracing at champion hillhttps://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_KjwLFuslYvw/TcRd0Yf2C1I/AAAAAAAACLc/XsYHCzVOz6Y/s400/DSCF9599.jpg

the drexciyan

19-10-2014, 04:27 PM

If i ever find a reason to be in glasgow i've always wanted to visit Cathkin Park, which was the home of Third Lanark:
http://www.footballgroundguide.com/old-grounds-and-stands/cathkin20.jpg

In its final few weeks they were offering free admission and a free pint but still couldn't attract enough people to keep the place open..!!

I went fairly regularly to Walthamstowe and a friend and I were going to get a dog when our kids had grown up - about now when I come to think about it :( They weren't even actually losing money but just got a whole lot more from the developer

I recognise the current Dell - my son rented one of the flats there for a year - they are nice but it was odd going there when I remembers the previous times I had been to the Dell to watch the football.

Mind you if you think how those grounds have ended up is sad try this lot:-

http://www.derelictlondon.com/sportsgrounds.html

Great link that, elsewhere in that site there's a very detailed list of all the london clubs old grounds with photos, ours included.
http://www.derelictlondon.com/londons-long-lost-sports-grounds.html

leicester1

28-10-2014, 01:16 PM

Filbert Street .....the photo is taken from the corner of Burnmoor Street....SK1 entrance for away fans on the right....Looking along the then narrow area behind our old spion kop pens towards the opposite corner...and entrance to the Double Decker...a sometimes favourite for travelling supporters....

leicester1

28-10-2014, 01:22 PM

The steps up to the old Double Decker...Filbert Street....the only ones running up stairs on this spot these days are the students/.........

leicester1

28-10-2014, 02:02 PM

Very similar view of behind the Spion Kops at Filbert Street.

HOVE EAGLE

28-10-2014, 02:31 PM

42890This was once a football ground

HOVE EAGLE

28-10-2014, 02:32 PM

42890This was once a football ground

its Newport county

leicester1

28-10-2014, 05:15 PM

Filbert Street......looking up the pitch...from the kop to the North Stand orange seats...student block to the left..

Chocky

28-10-2014, 06:50 PM

Last time I looked on Google Earth where Northampton's ground was that overlapped the cricket pitch you could still see the football pitch markings from the sky. I remember being there around 1984/5 ish for one of the many shittiest games of football I've seen Palace play, a 0-0 draw in the League Cup. It was strange to watch a game from the main stand with nothing on the other side except a massive cricket pitch and loads of ball boys running about to get back the woeful balls hoofed out that way.

selhursthoover

29-10-2014, 08:29 AM

42890This was once a football ground

Went there for a league cup game with Palace around 1986. Mad a day of it. We went in the wrong end and all hell broke out.